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They produce enough grain to feed two billion people.
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But most of that grain is not used to feed people.
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Here, and in all other industrialized nations,
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It's transformed into livestock feed or biofuels.
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The pocket of sunshine's energy...
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Chased away the specter of drought that stalked farmland.
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No spring escapes the demands of agriculture,
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Which accounts for 70% of humanity's water consumption.
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In nature, everything is linked.
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The expansion of cultivated land and single-crop farming...
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Encouraged the development of parasites.
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Pesticides, another gift of the petrochemical revolution,